Why Diablo 2 Is One Of The Best Games Ever 

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this game was basically my childhood...nothing will ever capture what this game did

I just came to cry here a little.

In middle school I used to wake up at 4 am to play D2 before going to school. I remember when I landed my first Stone of Jordan ring. Great memories.

This game changed my life when I was in High School. I played the hell out of it.

2019 Diablo 2 Players anywhere?

Great video to begin your adjustment!!! You are capable of providing an in-depth analysis of gaming and Games THEMSELVES. I don't know how the rest of the community feels but I would love to see you begin to analyze games that were the roots of different mechanics and stories we see or miss today. I would love to hear your take on Bioshock, Fear, shadow of the Colossus, Crysis, Half Life games from the earlier 2000's or around 2010 where a lot of their mechanics have been unfortunately been left behind due to lesser focus on story and atmosphere. I hope the community understands that your adjustment will take time and even some of the negative videos or mentions of current trends at least are still needed. All the best!

Dude!!! I love diablo 2 ! Still making d2 videos in 2018. We will never die!!!!!!

This game deserves A Hd remaster in it's own right : /.

Really, no other game got me sticked to it for so long, as D2 did. Played it for 12 years.

spent so many hours in diablo 2.. truly is one of the greatest games i ever played.

Did anyone else tell their very christian mom that the game is all about hunting demons so it's perfectly fine to play it?

Diablo 2 was WAAAAAY better than Diablo 3

"we all just use a map hack anyway.." Yeah no...

A gaming experience like this only happens once in a lifetime. I've been playing it since ~2003, first only barbarians on single player and LAN, later I learned how to play online and fell in love with trading (this basically showed me how a economy and stockmarket works). I thought my D2 days are finally over. But guess what, friends wanted to give D2R a go and I bought it too to help them out, and it STILL is as captivating as ever, despite having played modern hack'n'slays. This is one hell of a game.

One of my fondest memories of playing Diablo 2 was back when I was 10, I finally reached Diablo, I was an idiot and had no idea what a build was, so I summoned Diablo and when I saw him I was so scared of him I kept warping back to town and resurrecting my mercenary and my golem hoping they would kill Diablo because I was too scared of him. After like 50 warps and some 2 hours later I, er, my mercenary, managed to finally kill him. One of the most depressing moments I had was when I died, then I equipped some junk items to get back to my corpse, and as I grabbed my corpse while in a room with 3 Super-uniques, all of my corpse's items got thrown onto the floor because I forgot my inventory was full and I had those junk items equipped. I then immediately died, and thus lost all of the items that were equipped on my corpse. I turned Diablo 2 off and didn't play it again for another 5 years.

Diablo 2 Is One Of The Best Games Ever because, yes.

Hands down best game I’ve ever had the chance to play. Music is so amazing. Skill trees- random drops- not perfect items- music. It had it all.

played Diablo 2 since it was released back in year 2000, i only finished my first character thru Hell mode just a few days ago! (I achieved it w/ my least favorite char, Druid) now I got a charm to sunder Fire resistance so i am now planning to finish it w/ my favorite char, Wake of Fire assassin.

Year 2019 Playing D2 classic 640x480 res on my laptop. İ have it since day one! 41 years old.

Ah Diablo 2 hunted my dream during elementary school I must say D3 is kinda too casual and lack that scary atmosphere *Path of Exile is indeed spiritual successor of D2

when i was around seven me and my dad would play diablo 2 and would play for hours on end. people always told him i would be violent from playing such a dark game and that i needed to focus on reading, however, diablo 2 helped me learn how to read, every time i would pick up a item i would read it and that’s how a game about killing a demon overlord helped me read 😂

Great video. Lots of nostalgia. But I would like to add on one more point and that is the loot system in D2. The drop rates for Unique Items were abysmal, but when an unique item drop, you know exactly what are the stats going to be (minus the min - max roll). Hence each item ,whether it is a low / high roll, it is going to worth something. Also a lot of the unique items (whether it is low level or high level gear) have a use. Meaning most unique items out there can be used in some sort of build. This is what made all those countless Mephisto/ Diablo/ Baal runs worthwhile. It is the sensation of the rewarding feeling you get from all those hard work. Now looking at D3, one of my major concern is there are too much RNG within a Unique Item. Depending on the RNG, the unique item can be an absolute beast / worst the trash. And further add on to the fact that Unique items drops like candy hence making the item doesn't feel unique at all. PS: I remembered back during my early high school years, sneaking out of bed, turning on my PC and start playing D2. Clicking each key carefully to ensure no one hears I'm up playing. Spent the whole night farming Mephisto. In the end, he drops an unique Crusader Bow. I felt so happy, it pretty much made my day.

This game is the reason I can type wild fast on a keyboard

Diablo 2 .. just seeing it makes you want to play it again no matter how much time passes.

Who else is here after they announced the remaster?!

because it is perfect in everything, music, sounds,font, texture, playability, special effects, realism and originality, history, and history again ... because it also counts as it is shown to the player ... has no weaknesses, every time you live diablo you're sure there's nothing in diablo that does not belong to the diablo world ... even the objects had a history and an explanation ... everything was classified, everything was an immense chaos of an event that happened and that changed the world ... the death that has taken place on humanity ... it is simply a work of art in the videogame world

Perfect. More like this please!

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="504">8:24</a> "Sharing had no definition back then" I disagree. I gave out even good loot to complete strangers who I met and who didn't seem to have anything decent. I had so many mules full of usable stuff and I realized I really didn't need all of it... Especially for people on country channels I gave out lots of good loot for my countrymen in Finland, and I boosted alot of them for no gain for myself. This led into meeting many people who I have met personally IRL and who I still play different games with.

Wow... I still play D2 to this day, 20 years after I first started, and somehow I feel nostalgic watching this video. Good job mang.

Sorry i said bad things about you before.

Am i the only one that played D2 for the Single Player experience and story? Always did so, couldn't care less for online.

Stay a while, and listen!

I broke my mouse hand about 10 years ago and while it was healing in a cast, I played Diablo 2 every day with the other hand :D

It's truly astounding how complex and balanced this game's mechanism is. One will need a PhD level of understanding to master all classes of character and the music, graphics... it is diabolically perfect. This game really hacks in to human psychology. Way the item drops in a randomised fashion is just ingenious because that's exactly why gamblers get addicted. I would love to meet the developer one day... so many questions.

The nostalgia is real. Those nights playing until the sunrise, most of what you said here is shared feeling man. Nice vid!

All this channel talks about is positive stuff 🙄🙄 (lmao I’m kidding btw).

Still play to this day

RIP to all deceased Hardcore characters lol

My friend introduced this game to me back in 2002 or 2003 he pronounced it as "Die Ablo 2", I fell in love with the game and it took me several years to realize how its really pronounced.

Nice video. Diablo 2 is a perfect gem worthy of imbuing into your leisure time schedule. Sad to see Blizzard fall so far from grace.

I was just discussing Diablo 2 with my brother, who is currently playing D3 with some friends. The immersion that one is able to achieve in Diablo 2 is nothing short of phenomenal. To this day, I have yet to feel the dread I felt when I first saw Andariel, or when I was undoing those seals and just waiting for Diablo to one shot my Necromancer back to the Pandemonium Fortress. I lost years of my adolescence to that game, and do not regret even a second of it.

I remember playing D2 and being scared of being found out by my mum

I liked how finding a certain piece of gear would inspire me to make a new character and build it around that piece.

My older sister showed me this game when I was like 12. I was HOOKED. I have kept old computers alive just to play this game over and over it’s SO GOOD.

i loved diablo 2, and it was the best game i have ever played, by far.

"Why is Diablo 2 great?" "I made a bunch of friends and had a great time" That's uuuhh, that's not a useful conclusion for anyone who isn't you.

This is the type of content I subbed for. I can hear the passion for this video in your voice, and its a breath of fresh air. I enjoyed this video, even though I knew nothing about Diablo coming into it. If you continue to make content like this, you will certainly succeed. Also, a question: (if you see this) Have you ever considered making a discord server? It would be, in my opinion, a great way to interact on an even more personal level with your viewers.

"If you messed up, well that's life." Yeah, tell that to my necromancer that was maxed on Strength and health because I, being 10 years old, never realized what might be important to a necromancer other than strength. Cause, you wanna kick some asses, right? Fortunately, a friend of mine told me about my mistake when seeing me running low on mana after having shot four bone spears (correct translation? Didn't play the English version) in the caves of the desert.

Great video! Finished Diablo 2 the other day for the first time. So many great memories playing this gem of a game.

Hardcore is the only way to play D2. Players in hardcore were WAY more friendly, because giving corpse loot permissions to a friend was the only way to avoid losing your stuff when a random MSLE in Hell instantly fries you. This created natural trust and camaraderie. I did many Mephisto and Diablo runs with strangers that became friends, and we always traded who got nice uniques, never fighting to see who could pick it up the fastest. I only once had someone keep something from my corpse, and never stole anything myself. I did lose 5 fully geared characters over level 70 to internet connection loss, which finally led to me quitting, but the memories are still great nonetheless!

Next one should be, why is Diablo 3 a pathetic attempt at former glory.

I am not crying, you are crying.

I will say, I do appreciate the change in format and approach. Thank you for slowing down on clickbaiting and pursuing more passionate and positive reviews. I will be watching more of your content in the future.

Plot twist, Grandma wanted that first place on the ladder

This was so nostalgic. I'm sad now. I wanna go back to being a kid.

Great video, i probably spent thousands of hours in Diablo 2 and LoD.

Gamers are.....happy?

Diablo 2 was more than just a game. It was a community experience. And if you played it solo, it was a haunting single player experience. Either way, a game that is just as memorable as its mechanics were good.

My mom used to find my D2 disk and snap it in half... I would always buy it back again, every single time.

Diablo II is an ART in a GAME form.. nuff said!

I'm now on a watch everything diablo-related after Diablo : Immortal's Debacle. Just installed D2 again.

I played Diablo 2 for years! Nice game, nice vid.

Diablo 2 helped me when I was getting clean from alcohol. I'm not kidding I'm sober for 3 months and I love you guys. Long live diablo 2

Yes man I still play D2 original on my 233 MHz 1.9 GB ram running on windows XP offline. Old faithful because my pc never goes on the internet. Just for diablo 2 ,Warcraft 3 frozen throne,and NES snes sega genesis around 2000 games. It’s a gem 💎

Some of the points you made are exactly why I love Path of Exile. A game definitely made by people who loved the original Diablo’s but unique enough to be great in its own right.

Uh. I played Diablo 2 actively from the release in 2000 until 2013. I still play it now, just not as much. I've never once used maphack. Anyone who has played long enough knows all the maps and even if you don't, all you do is follow the walls. The classes were also not balanced. Many of the skills were completely unusable, especially in PVP. You could win in duels with just about any character, but the best by far when getting rid of skill is the hammerdin. I actively dueled every day for over half of my life as a hybrid Necromancer though. You didn't need anyone to play with either. Almost the entirety of my time playing was spent on dueling and I did so by myself. Best way to get people to duel was by using a game title like "NVA 1V7" which was always my game title. Cheaters also didn't make dueling hard. People that were actually good at the game mechanically still beat cheaters. It was extremely easy to telestomp desync as a hybrid Nec and kill anyone in the game regardless of whether they were cheating or not. Whilst you're right about no one wanting to share items it was never a problem for me. I started playing the game before I turned eleven years old. All I cared about was that I was able to play. I never went for items. Even after playing for several years I wouldn't go for items. The only time I ever picked anything up was when everyone else finished and went to town or if I was in my own private game doing runs. Diablo 2 also isn't one of the best games ever. It is the best game ever. ^_^

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="190">3:10</a> you might be a map hacking cheat but don't assume everyone is ...

You know what I found the other day? My old diablo 2 folder! I almost shed a tear. The story is, that I didn't have internet connection for a long time and I kept going to the local small library where the nice lady printed out many things from various diablo websites for me, so I can read them at home. Runewords, strategies, builds, list of unique items and sets, etc. I kept the precious documents in a white folder. Not soon after we got good net at home and I can finally play online. But the tome of wisdom still exist after 20+ years.

Ive only just discovered Diablo 2 resurrected at the end of 2023. I love it.

D2 was the last Diablo ever made

D2 is so addicting, I don't allow myself to play it anymore.

Baldur's Gate and Ice Wind Dale games were my favorite. I never played Diablo until later when D3 was released.

I think the game holds up a lot better than you think it does. Now that we have the resurrected version with millions of people still playing, it will continue to hold up for the new generation.

Agreed. So much nostalgia. I'm playing resurrected now and it's great!

Diablo 2 is the best because it’s simple, the mercenary less talking more action, and no account bound stuffs.

Everyone should solo "/players 8" So fun.

I remember playing this on a computer running windows 98

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="567">9:27</a> Seeing the item art really kicked me back down memory lane. I used to know the name of so many of the game's items, as well as their model. And even though it was such a simple thing, the Kite Shield still looks so ridiculously beautiful that I lament the lack of any similar looking items in most modern (MMO)RPG's. Gods, I'll have to find that one mod again that kept the game as is, but simply upped the item droprate. Good times, would play again!

Diablo 2 and StarCraft raised me.

really like this format and this video, great to see some positivity and higher quality again :)

Paladin: "Ah sh!t, here we go again."

Welcome back!

I was 21 when Diablo II came out and oh boy all those sleepless nights and being late for work because of luck of sleep 🛏 yes it was good and bad times in my life... As a matter of fact I never played any other games so religiously ever after till this day, but I have great memories thanks to creators of a NO1 in the world game for me

Fantastic game. I have three different versions of it installed on my computer. One for live, one for solo play, and one for a private server.

Diablo 2 remastered anyone?

I still prefer Diablo 1, i love the atmosphere there and the soundtrack is on point, everytime i play it i just can't stop... but diablo 2 is good too tho

"Yet its legacy rests with only three games." Ah yes, Diablo 1, 2, and Path of Exile.

Old school Blizzard had one right idea: bag space. Fitting loot in Diablo 2 was at least a third of the fun. They even managed to recreate some of that excitement in early WoW, with unlocking bag slots and crafting bigger bags. I remember scrounging up the silver pieces to pay some higher level characters to craft me the biggest bags I could get, and the thrill of filling them with loot and quest items. Gosh!

Our neighbor was a Hispanic man who was the pastor of our church in Texas. I was playing in the living room one day when him and his wife came over. He noticed all the action on the computer screen and asked "well that looks interesting what game is that?" Not knowing at the time that Diablo meant devil in Spanish I turned with a big smile and said, "Diablo it's really fun!" The look of horror on that man's face I will never forget.

2 games, legacy rests with 2 games.

Great video man. Favourite game of all time has to be the witcher 3

Immortal... And now I watch this.... now we have to stop the great evilcorp

D2SE Solo Self found- finally built my infinity a 2% off perfect Ed eth Thresher. Working on my Enigma now. Unfortunately I forgot how bad bows suck and built a Faith prior to making Enigma. The experience of obtaining all the items and rune words myself has been the absolute best gaming experience I’ve had in at least 10 years. Still searching for the ever so rare Eth titans and Griffon’s eye. The feeling that overcomes me when I see a ultra rare item or rune is pure adrenaline.

I'm 26 years old, have PLENTY of favourite games - grew up with an older brother playing everything from NES to the newest systems and everything in between, and Diablo 2 remains my favourite game. I've easily logged close to 5000 hours probably

My grandma couldn't have called while playing online since I had a dial-up connection.

When i was playing hardcore with a 56k modem: Diablo Mortal

Just how many games released when D2 was released are still being played as much as D2? Maybe Starcraft. Can't think of many. D2 is still being played when D3 has been around for a decade. It will still be played when D4 comes out unlike D3, which will quickly die out.

One of my craziest memories of this game was when I was about 13 or 14. My cousin was nearly 2 years older than me. He got me into this game and we both played it like crazy. He met this guy in game, became good friends with him. He would even talk to him on the phone and shit, help him rush toons, and talk about builds. So one day he he tells me to "come watch this." He was about help this guy xfer all his good gear to his new build. So the guy comes in and drops all his gear, he picks it all up and throws it in his stash, guy comes back in drops a few more things and leaves. My cousin picks up everything and then leaves game. Blocks the guy on his friends list. 6 months of friendship gone over some pixels lmfao it was great! I even remember the poor guys character name... It was Ogdinn. GG wherever you are Ogdinn.

I hesitaed alot to play d2 ress. Never played classic D2. It may not be as flashy and doesnt have many systems as Poe. But after i bought D2 ress and got used to the old scholl style- this game its amazing from start to finish. Im so glad i gave it a chance!